Subira, the patriarch of the Dallas Zoo’s gorilla family troop, has died from heart disease, the zoo announced Friday. The Western lowland gorilla was 24. According to the zoo, Subira had been treated for a mild cough in the days before his death, a symptom that didn’t seem to indicate anything more than the common cold. But his necropsy revealed …
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March 28, 2020